Salad Dressings

My ex-personal trainer, Derek (he wouldn't be ex if I could still afford him, sigh) advocates 2 tbsp olive oil and vinegar only.  The last time I did his Trainer's Diet (and lost 50 lbs, in about a year) that's all I used for the first few months.  Then one day I looked at the calorie count of the olive oil (120 calories per tbsp) and said, holy &*^%, I can do better than that. 

First I went to the various Walden Farms dressings, all of which are zero calories.  The Italian wasn't too bad.  The Thousand Island wasn't too bad.  The rest I thought were inedible. 

Then I moved onto Publix Lite Honey Mustard.  At 35 calories per 2 tbsp, it wasn't quite as low-cal as Walden Farms, but not nearly as much as straight olive oil.  And it was delicious!  I used that for the rest of my last diet.

This time around, I was sick of honey mustard.  So I bought some Maple Grove Farms Fat-Free Raspberry Vinaigrette for the same 35 calories/ 2 tbsps.  It was excellent!  However, I wanted to really cut calories for the first couple of weeks, so I tried a bottle of Maple Grove Farms Sugar-Free Raspberry Vinaigrette.  Not as great as the Fat Free, but good, and for 5 calories/2 tbsps, a definite keeper.  They sell it in Wal-Mart.  That's what I've been using the whole first week, and I eat salads practically every day. So far, so good, and I still like it.